Shore to Shore ‘A’ retain Printers Sixes
View(s):Shore to Shore ‘A’ retained the Printer’s Cricket ‘Sixes’ title with a comfortable five wickets win over Flexi Print ‘A’ in the Finals at the 10th Sri Lanka Association of Printers Six a Side cricket tournament 2015 concluded at the NCC grounds recently.
Shore to Shore ‘A’ has now won the title five times in the 10 year history of the tournament, earlier emerged champs in 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2014 and finished as runners-up in 2010 and 2011.Forty six teams participated; a total of 46 matches were conducted on four pitches.
Match Results at a glance from the quarter finals onwards (the first team mentioned batted first)
Quarter-finals: 1st Kemin Exports 47/5 (5) lost to Shore to Shore ‘A’ 49/3 (2.2); 2nd J.D.C. Printers 37/6 (5) lost to Print Care ‘B’ 40/3 (3.5); 3rd Jf and I Packaging ‘A’ 72/3 (5) lost to Flexi Print ‘A’ 73/1 (3.1); 4th Shore to Shore ‘B’ 58/4 (5) lost to Print Excel ‘A’ 64/2 (3.2).
Semi-finals:
(1) Print Care ‘B’ 81/5 lost to Shore to Shore “A” 83/1 (4.3);
(2) Flexi Print ‘A’ 87/1 (5) beat Print Excel 54/6 (4.3).
Playoff for the 3rd Place:
Print Excel ‘A’ 79/5 (5), Print Care ‘B’ 79/4 (5) — (match ending in a tie, wicketkeeper’s over) — Print Care ‘B’ 28/0 (1) lost to Print Excel ‘A’ 34/0 (1)
Final: Flexi Print ‘A’ 47/5 (5) (Nuwan Janaka 2/7, Sudesh Anuradha 1/7, Eranga Damith 1/2) lost to Shore to Shore ‘A’ 48/1 (2.4) (Sudesh Anuradha 31 rtd, Nuwan Wickramasinghe 1/10)
Special Awards:
Best Bowler: Nuwan Janaka (Shore to Shore ‘A’
Best Batsman: Lasad Sandeepa (Flexi Print ‘A’)
Man of the final: Nuwan Janaka (Shore to Shore ‘A’
Man of the Tournament: Thisara Wickramasinghe (Flexi Print ‘A’
In the side events – Expo Printers won the Women’s match beating Metropolitan Office (Pvt) Ltd., the Tug of War by Shore to Shore beating Expo Printers. In the exhibition match, the Suppliers led by Kevin La Faber beat the Printer’s led by Wasantha Ramanayake.
Sanath Jayasuriya was the Chief Guest at the awards presentation. – LR